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To: Healey Mail List <healeys@autox.team.net>, Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] [ot] classic car films
From: Robert Blair <rnbmail@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:16:12 -0800 (PST)
Jody, LE MANS .... Steve McQueen ....


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--- On Sun, 2/22/09, Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Healeys] [ot] classic car films
> To: "Healey Mail List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009, 8:55 PM
> Hey all,
>
> I was trying to explain the movie Vanishing Point to the
> wife tonight
> and then started making a top ten car films list because of
> it. I
> don't like all of the list I've come up with (nor
> could I determine a
> really good #10). What movies am I missing from my list?
> The idea is
> that the car is either a central carachter, or so integral
> to the film
> that it becomes such. Here's my working list:
>
> 1) Italian Job (Original)
> 2) Vanishing Point
> 3) Bullett
> 4) Cars
> 5) Mad Max (including the Road Warrior)
> 6) Gone in 60 Seconds (Both versions)
> 7) Herbie the love bug
> 8) Smokey and the Bandit
> 9) Cannoball Run
>
> There's many b-stars to go with this. Harold and Maude,
> Downhill
> Racer, THX1138, Fast and the Furious, What's new
> Pussycat, the Bond
> films, etc, etc.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> Jody
>
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